Winslow Park

Here's the view from Winslow Park, a summer campground whose owners graciously open their gates to dog owners in winter.  We can run our dogs there without leashes, and dog owners have taken to meeting every morning at the point at 8:30 for a dog playtime and confab.  We're surrounded by water on three sides. 

Across the water, below, is South Freeport.

And here, above, are benches facing out to the water.  Some are memorials, as we'll see below.

  Our dog Cody looks for playmates, but we've come late today, and the road coming up to the point is encrusted with ice, discouraging the usual visitors.  My husband and I had to put ice-grippers on the soles of our boots in order to make it here.

Being alone at the point gives us time to read the memorial benches for the first time.  The words above on the pale, top line are: "Forever young, spirited, beautiful, and loved."  And the bottom line reads: "Still waters run deep."   

    The bench's words below are clear.      

Memorials inspired by the sea are always especially haunting and poignant.  They all share the spirit of the first one I ever saw, atop a hill on Butter Island overlooking Penobscot Bay.  It's a marble bench dedicated to the memory of the island's owner, who bought up many islands in the bay for preservation, so that sailors and hikers can enjoy them forever.  On the bench's back is a line from Tennyson's Ulysses: "Come, my friends.  'Tis not too late to seek a newer world." 

Comments

[Tabor]

Thanks so much for your generous comments at my blog! A new photo and a new haircut for you? The bench is so poignant. She passed on so young. It is somehow soothing that her loved ones valued money less and a memorial more!

[Tabor]

Thanks so much for your generous comments at my blog! A new photo and a new haircut for you? The bench is so poignant. She passed on so young. It is somehow soothing that her loved ones valued money less and a memorial more!

[Terri]

What a beautiful spot to go with one's dog.
Cody looks super! What a great looking dog.
Gosh, both those girls were so young to pass on, but how nice to have the memorial there.
We have a few benches at the CK cemetery near the stones. One is engraved very simply "Sit Awhile and Talk to Me." I like that.